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Whitworths Great Office Bake Off - September Loaf Bakes #GOBO

Angela MooreSunday, September 29, 2013

Carrot Cake

With the Great
British Bake Off back on our screens it seems the whole of the UK has got
baking mania again. So when Whitworths Sugar told me all about their Great Office Bake Off, how could I and my work colleagues resist joining in the challenge. To be honest there are
lots of bakers in our office so we needed little encouragement.

It was easy to organise
using the Whitworths Great Office Bake Off #GOBO Toolkit, so if you think your office wants to join in be sure to visit the site to find out more. You can also follow Whitworths Sugar on Twitter, and share your bakes via a tweet.

It has all you need :-

a poster to advertise
your #GOBO

voting slips

tournament table

bake sale labels

#GOBO certificate for
winner

Apple and Spice Tea Loaf

A Loaf Bake was the
September theme of our #GOBO, a staggering eleven members of staff entered. There was a real variety of bakes, even two savoury bakes and one multi coloured rainbow cake!

An impressive number of entries!

Here is a full list
of the bakes:-

Lemon Drizzle
Cake- three entries

Carrot Cake

Apple and Spice Tea
Loaf

Rainbow Vanilla Cake

Banana and Walnut
Loaf

Plum and Almond

Blackberry and
Cinnamon

Vegetarian Savoury
cake

Sun dried tomato and
mozzarella

Plum and Almond Cake

There were nine
judges, who all seemed to enjoy the tasting and scoring. I have to say the
voting slips made this nice and easy, it also made adding up the scores to find
the winners straight forward.

The winners are:

1st
Place - Carrot Cake

2nd Place - Apple and Spice Tea Loaf

joint 3rd Place - Lemon Drizzle Cake

Plum and Almond Cake

Now there is an
element of delight and slight embarrassment when I tell you that I baked the
Carrot Cake, but I can assure you the judging was totally impartial. For those interested I used the Whitworths Carrot Cake recipe, the ingredients were enough to make one and a half loaves. You can see photographs of all the bakes on the Whitworths Facebook app.

Rainbow Vanilla Cake

We sliced up all the cakes and sold them to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The October #GOBO
will be a technical bake where all entries will bake to the same recipe, but
nothing too tricky.

Disclosure: I was sent Whitworths sugar for baking and compensated for this post.